{"id":60683,"date":"2025-02-06T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60683"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:02:27","slug":"csn-calls-for-urgent-safety-reforms-mourns-17-children-killed-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/06\/csn-calls-for-urgent-safety-reforms-mourns-17-children-killed-in-zamfara\/","title":{"rendered":"CSN Calls for Urgent Safety Reforms, Mourns 17 Children Killed in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic fire that claimed the lives of 17 children at an Islamic school in Kauran Namoda, Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the CSN extended condolences to the victims&#8217; families and the Islamic community, describing the incident as a heartbreaking national loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretariat also prayed for the swift recovery of the injured.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing the urgent need for stronger safety measures, CSN decried Nigeria\u2019s inadequate emergency response systems and called on the government to enforce stricter fire safety regulations to prevent future tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This devastating loss is a wake-up call to prioritize the protection of human life,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The CSN urged immediate reforms to ensure schools and public spaces are safe, stressing that no child should die due to preventable disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu\u00a0 The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic fire that claimed the lives of 17 children at an Islamic school in Kauran Namoda, Zamfara State. In a statement, the CSN extended condolences to the victims&#8217; families and the Islamic community, describing the incident as a heartbreaking national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60685,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions\/60685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}